Zucchini Banana Bread

Zucchini banana bread is ultra moist, extra tender and the most flavorful banana bread you’ll eat. It’s not too sweet so it’s perfect for breakfast, and seriously the most delicious way to use up all your fresh zucchini.

What happens when you combine brown bananas and zucchini? The most delicious banana bread recipe you’ll ever try. This zucchini banana bread is softer, more tender, more moist, and packed with even more flavor than your favorite banana bread recipe.

Zucchini Banana Bread Recipe

For this zucchini banana bread – we’re basically taking your classic banana bread recipe and adding in 1 cup of finely grated zucchini. The zucchini adds extra moisture, which makes the bread tender and soft. It has that deliciously dense texture that you’d expect from banana bread, but without being heavy.

The flavor is somewhere in between a spice cake and a banana bread, with just the right amount of cinnamon.

To get started, first whisk together the dry ingredients – flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt & cinnamon. In a separate bowl whisk together the oil, sugar, vanilla extract & eggs. Then stir in the mashed bananas.

From there we gently stir the dry ingredients, and last but not least stir in the grated zucchini. You’ll want to squeeze out some of the extra zucchini before adding it into the batter so that you don’t add a lot of water.

You can also add in 1 cup of chopped nuts or chocolate chips if you like too.

The banana zucchini bread will bake for about 45-55 minutes. I recommend using a light colored loaf pan to prevent burning/over browning on the edges. If you notice that the top is starting to get a little too dark but the loaf isn’t fully baked through the middle yet, you can tent a piece of aluminium foil over top as it continues to bake.

If you love this banana zucchini bread – make sure to try these other banana bread recipes:

Zucchini banana bread is ultra moist, extra tender and the most flavorful banana bread you'll eat. It's not too sweet so it's perfect for breakfast, and seriously the most delicious way to use up all your fresh zucchini.

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Banana Bread, Banana Recipes, Quick Breads, Zucchini Recipes

Servings: 10slices

Ingredients

2cupsall-purpose flour

2teaspoonscinnamon

1 1/2teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4teaspoonsalt

1/2cupunsalted butter, melted

1/2 cupwhite sugar

1/2cupbrown sugar

2teaspoonsvanilla extract

2large eggs

2mediumbananas, mashed

1 1/4cupsgrated zucchini*

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350F degrees.

Line a 9x5 inch loaf pan with parchment paper, or grease and flour the bottom & sides.